@article{1479151,
      recid = {1479151},
      author = {Heefner, Gretchen,},
      title = {The Missile Next Door : The Minuteman in the American  Heartland /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {Between 1961 and 1967 the United States Air Force buried  1,000 Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles in  pastures across the Great Plains. The Missile Next Door  tells the story of how rural Americans of all political  stripes were drafted to fight the Cold War by living with  nuclear missiles in their backyards-and what that story  tells us about enduring political divides and the  persistence of defense spending. By scattering the missiles  in out-of-the-way places, the Defense Department kept the  chilling calculus of Cold War nuclear strategy out of view.  This subterfuge was necessary, Gretchen Heefner argues, in  order for Americans to accept a costly nuclear buildup and  the resulting threat of Armageddon. As for the ranchers,  farmers, and other civilians in the Plains states who were  first seduced by the economics of war and then forced to  live in the Soviet crosshairs, their sense of citizenship  was forever changed. Some were stirred to dissent. Others  consented but found their proud Plains individualism giving  way to a growing dependence on the military-industrial  complex. Even today, some communities express reluctance to  let the Minutemen go, though the Air Force no longer wants  them buried in the heartland. Complicating a red state/blue  state reading of American politics, Heefner's account helps  to explain the deep distrust of government found in many  western regions, and also an addiction to defense spending  which, for many local economies, seems inescapable.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479151},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067462},
}